| 1521 |  | The Koltsevaya Doroga terminus, still inhabited
by MTV+KTP trains. A year later, this will turn into the speed-tram
line, and Tatras will usurp it. [Wolfgang Schreiner, 1977] |
| 1522 |  | An interesting shot depicting the
reconstruction of Ulitsa Bozhenko, a temporary closure of
one of the tracks, and a wrong-tracking car on route 9.
(Precise location??) [Aare Olander, 24.06.1981] |
| 1523 |  | Ploschad Slavy, near the small Pushkin monument
and the Avtodorozhny (Road and Automobile) Institute building.
The tram is turning from Suvorova into Yanvarskogo Vosstaniya. [Hugh Ball, 1960's] |
| 1524 |  | The Vokzal loop on route 10,
which has just been equipped with the MTVs (back in 1959,
old Kh+M trains still ran there). Behind it is a KTV car,
most probably on route 6. [Wolfgang Schreiner, 06.1961] |
| 1525 |  | Ulitsa Kirova (Grushevskogo),
between the present-day Metro Arsenalnaya and Krepostnoy Pereulok.
The garden on the right-hand side is where the Chinese embassy
stands today. [State Photo Archive of Ukraine, 1957] |
| 1530 |  | A string of cars at the Krasnaya (Kontraktovaya)
Ploschad terminus. An interesting detail is that there are
cars both in the "nationalist" yellow-and-blue livery
and in the yellow-and-red one that replaced it.
Apparently it was just around this time (August 1973) that
the never-sleeping Party uncovered the terrible plot
by Ukrainian nationalists and ordered the cars repainted! [Wolfgang Schreiner, 08.1973] |
| 1532 |  | The same loop, eight years later.
There is already a Metro station; as for trams,
Tatras clearly prevail — albeit two-door ones, for the most part. [Aare Olander, 23.06.1981] |
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| 1535 |  | Two MTV cars meet on Menzhinskogo (Dmitrievskaya),
near the Poltavskaya stop. The one which is on route 9 is Podol-bound. [Aare Olander, 22.05.1981] |
| 1537 |  | The only known picture of route 24
— Bessarabka-Stalinka, as it was known at that time.
After that route was discontinued, in 1972, these tracks
(turning from Dimitrova onto Bozhenko, near the Paton Electric
Welding Institute) were only used for depot pullins and pullouts
for a quarter of a century; thereafter, route 10 ran here for a few
years, having been diverted from Vladimirskaya for fear of a steep incline
there. [Raymond De Groote, Jr., 12.07.1959] |
| 1539 |  | Kontraktovaya Ploschad once again.
Note the unusual font used for the fleet numbers
(the same sharpened font was used for the Tatras at the time).
As these cars were getting the new yellow-and-red livery, the font
was changed to a more rounded shape.
[Wolfgang Schreiner, 08.1973] |